Flickr is available, please please do what I do and that is to search under advanced and click the creative commons tab and also the commercial use tab. I also send a message to the author and send a link to the matte painting that I have done. If its a commercial matte painting I always ask the author. Never had a no yet, but I always keep a copy of their agreement on file.

Also do you possess a camera, if so use it, create your own texture library. Its hard to get organised at first but you will get the hang of it.

Thank you very much Alex.
Yes you answered everything, now it's clear.

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Originally Posted by Alex Jenyon

Yes - you should include all the clouds indicated in the concept art in your painting.

In a shot like this, the clouds are at such a large scale that we wouldn't really expect any significant movement, and it's perfectly reasonable to create them as a static DMP (The brief is designed to be as realistic as possible, so this is something we have done on a real project).

No - the challenge is to follow the concept art as closely as possible, while creating a photo-real image. We don't want this turning into a concept design challenge too - it's hard enough already!

Superb theme. It will be very interesting to see how will everyone perform within such tight restrictions. Obviously there will be a need of getting flawless clouds photography, hopefully environment-textures.com will come with help, so far also no luck in downloading any textures from my side. Exciting!